Adele Tucker

Adele Evelina Johnson Tucker MBE (8 August 1868 – 4 January 1971) was a Bermudian schoolteacher and trade unionist.

In 1892, she began attending the Collegiate Institute, a teachers' college run by the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

[1] In 1903, Tucker appeared before a commission into the school system, making a range of complaints about low salaries, understaffing, and underresourcing.

[2] She served as the first treasurer of the organisation, which in 1947 became the first trade union in Bermuda to achieve legal recognition (following the passage of a new law).

Tucker was forcibly retired from teaching at the age of 65, but remained involved in a number of community organisation.